Leonie sits elegantly as if she’s giving an etiquette lesson.
“Bring me the lemon water,” she commands.
Maureen glares at Andrea.
“Are you deaf?” Maureen snarls, “Get lemon water from the kitchen for Miss Summers!”
Andrea nods and walks to the kitchen, returning with a fine china basin filled with lemon water. Leonie dippers her fair hands in the lemo water and turns her palms back and forth. After she’s finished, she asks for a towel. Andrea removes the basin and offers Leonie an Egyptian cotton towel, before taking the basin and discarded towel back to the kitchen. Weak as she is, her hands shake.
Next, Maureen then asks her to bring glasses of water to the table. Andrea complies, placing the crystal glasses next to an empty china basin on the tray. Mrs. Florence Hamilton sips the w
